Volkswagen’s electric offensive continues to accelerate: mass production of the logo’s first 100 percent electric SUV, ID.4, begins in Zwickau. The world premiere of ID.4 will continue at the end of September. Volkswagen thus confirms its ambition to be the world leader in electric mobility. To this end, the Group is making an investment of about 33 billion euros during the era until 2024, of which 11 billion are destined for the Volkswagen logo. The logo plans to produce 1.5 million electric cars by 2025.
“With the ID.4, Volkswagen is adding an all-electric vehicle to its range in the compact SUV category, the world’s largest expansion segment,” said Ralf Brandst-tter, CEO of the Volkswagen brand. “After ID.3, this is already the style of the moment in the modular electric propulsion matrix (MEB). In the future, the car will be manufactured and sold in Europe, China and later also in the United States. This is how to make the MEB platform bigger globally and lay the economic foundation for the good fortune of our identification. family.”
Electric mobility board member Thomas Ulbrich said: “We are in time with the Volkswagen lopass’s transformation procedure into electric mobility. ID.3 is now followed through ID.4. Given the wonderful social demand situations of recent months, the successful start-up of the ID.4 series production is an exceptional achievement, so my gratitude and appreciation are transmitted especially to the Volkswagen team in Saxony and all members of team ID. The style of the ID moment. The circle of relatives is already moving outside the meeting line where, most recently, IEs were still under construction.
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Zwickau plays a key role in the transition from formula to electric mobility: for the first time, a gigantic car production plant is completely switching to electric mobility, with investments of around 1.2 billion euros. All conversion paintings will be completed as planned this year. In 2021, the first full year of production as an electric vehicle plant, some 300,000 electric cars founded on the modular electric transmission matrix (MEB) will leave the Zwickau plant. The site will be the most giant and effective electric vehicle plant in Europe and a pioneer in the transformation of Volkswagen’s global production network paints. Preparations for deploying the electric SUV around the world are also in full swing. Pre-production of ID.4 has already begun at the Anting plant in China, the Chattanooga site will begin production of ID.4 in 2022.
The ID.4 is based on Volkswagen’s Modular Electric Propulsion (MEB) matrix. It is an all-electric platform that maximizes the opportunities presented through electric mobility. With a low drag coefficient of 0.28 and a scalable battery system, the ID.4 can travel more than 500 kilometers (in WLTP). The vehicle also offers plenty of interior space and the harsh proportions take a look at the outside.
The SUV will be presented first with rear-wheel drive, while later an electric all-wheel drive edition will be added. The high voltage battery is located at the sandwich design base to create an optimal low gravity medium in terms of driving dynamics as well as an incredibly well-balanced per-axis load distribution. Like all models based on the new modular electric drive matrix (MEB), the ID.4 will be very spacious thanks to its compact electric drive technology. The zero-emission SUV cab is obviously structured and systematically digitized; The operation is largely done through touch surfaces and intuitive voice control.
For Volkswagen, ID.4 and ID.3 are milestones as the logo moves towards overall carbon fairness until 2050, aligned with the climate targets of the Paris Agreement. Like ID.3, its sister model, the ELECTRIC SUV ID.4 sets new benchmarks for sustainability: production in Saxony is impartial in terms of carbon emissions and the electric SUV will be delivered to consumers with an unbiased carbon footprint. Green energy is used exclusively in the production of battery cells that consume a lot of power for ID.4.
With its strong access to electric mobility, Volkswagen contributes to climate coverage and therefore creates long-term customers for some 100,000 workers in its German factories. In addition to production at the Zwickau plant, component plants in Brunswick, Kassel, Salzgitter and Wolfsburg also handle the production of electric cars. They manufacture key parts such as electric motors or battery systems. ID.3 will also be built at Gleserne Manufaktur in Dresden from 2021. Car production plants in Emden and Hanover are expected to start building electric cars from 2022.
1) ID.3: force consumption in kWh / hundred km (NEDC): 15.4 – 14.5 (combined); Co2 emissions combined in g/km: 0; Efficiency class: AArrayArrayArray
2) ID.4 The vehicle has not yet been released in Europe.
SOURCE: Volkswagen
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